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Management Committee Members' Meeting
Next 8 May (4.00 pm, CET - Rome), under the presidency of Danilo Monarca, the Members of the "Club of Bologna" Management Committee will meet online. The Agenda of the meeting is:
1 - President’s communications
2 - Draft Agenda of 35th CoB Members' Meeting
2.1 - Discussion on Agenda, Chairmen Sessions and Rapporteurs proposals
3. Membership
3.1 Current situation
3.2 – Full Members list (In–Out)
4. CoB activities
4.1 - Pellizzi Prize 2026 (VI Edition)
4.2 - Study Groups
4.3 - CIGR-EurAgEng 2026 Congress (Turin, 24-26 June, 2026)
5. Any other business
Marco Fiala - Secretary General “Club of Bologna"
Pellizzi Prize 2026: 11 candidates are now on race!
The deadline to apply for “Pellizzi Prize 2026” expired on 30 April. The candidates for the best three worldwide Ph.D. theses PhD theses focused on "Agricultural Machinery an Mechanization". are eleven! Congratulation!
At “Pellizzi Prize section, their names and the Extended Abstracts of their theses. Have a look, very intersting subjects!
The Evaluation Panel will nominate the winners by June 30th and the awards ceremony will be held on November 13th, during the 35th Club of Bologna Members’ Meeting, organized on the occasion of EIMA International 2026.
Marco Fiala - Secretary General “Club of Bologna”
34th Memebers' Meeting in Bari...the photos!
In the "Download" section, many photos of the 34th Members Meeting, held in Bari, Agrilevante (11-2 October 2025), are now available. Take a look!
Marco Fiala - Secretary General “Club of Bologna”
CIGR-EurAgEng World Congress 2026
Our Full Member Prof. Fedro Zazueta (CIGR Secretary General) is pleased to inform the CoB community about the joint event "CIGR–EurAgEng World Congress" which will be held on June 24–26, 2026 at Politecnico of Turin (Italy).
The Congress, themed "Emerging Technologies and Innovation in Biosystems", is a very prestigious event offered jointly by the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) and the European Society of Agricultural Engineers (EurAgEng).
Marco Fiala - Secretary General “Club of Bologna”
AgTecCollection
Our Full Member Prof. Hermann Auernhammer (Technical University of Munich - TUM; https://www.tum.de/en/) informed us about the possibility of free access to "AgTecCollection in mediaTUM" at https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/agteccollection.
It is a very interesting database concerning Agricultural Machinery and Mechanization sector, very useful for all the people (manufacturers, consultants, experts, students) interested in this topic and with visits from more than 140 Countries worldwide.
Marco Fiala - Secrtery General
Management Committee decisions (10 Oct 2025)
- Management Committee (MC): 9 MC Members and 2 Past-Presidents (PP) had its first meeting in presence on 10 October in Bari (AGRILEVANTE)
- Communication activities: to improve communication among MC Members will be created: (i) a chat-group, (ii) a shared folder on cloud. Roberto Oberti will support Marco Fiala (Secretry General) and Patrizia Menicucci (Administrative Secretary, FederUnacoma) in communication task. CoB website and CoB LinkedIn group must be boosted.
- CoB Members: 5 Full Members (FM) were deleted, due to their low attendance in past years (excluding the Covid period). 3 Pellizzi Prize 2020 - IV Edition winnners (Christian Birkmann, DEU; Hao Gan, USA; Xin Zhang, USA), after five years hosted in CoB, were confirmed as FM. Welcome and congratulations to all these young new Members! Currently, CoB Members are 103 (11 MC, 3 PP, 82 FM, 4 Pellizzi Prize 2024 Winners), representing 29 Countries, 7 Federations/Associations, 16 Organizations. Efforts to identify potential new Members, particularly in world areas currently not represented.
- Internal Rules: no changes have been made to the current text.
- 35th CoB Members' Meeting: will be held in Bologna (13-14 November, 2026), in occasion of “EIMA International” exhibition. Topics: Session 1: Maechanization for Emerging Countries; Session2: Conservative Soil Tillage, (iii) Special Mechanization (sector to be defined).
- Study Group (SGR): SGR2 Dissemination was dismissed. Giuseppe Gavioli, coordinator of SGR5 Collaboration between University and Industry, presented the internal working teams and the SGR aims. SGRs activities and results must be update and disseminate.
- Pellizzi Prize: the next VI Edition was approved and scheduled for 35th Members' meeting in Bologna. The award "Notice and Forms" will be published up to 31 Jan 2026 and te terms of application is 30 April 2026.
Marco Fiala - Secretary General
34th CoB Members' Meeting (Bari, AGRILEVANTE)
Session 1
How Technology and Farmers' Needs Shape Next-gen Tractors
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34th CoB Members' Meeting (Bari, AGRILEVANTE)
Session 2
SPECIALIZED MECHANIZATION: Machinery for Olive Growing and Oil Extraction
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34th CoB Members' Meeting (Bari, AGRILEVANTE)
Session 3
Application of AI in Agricultural Machinery and Components
Closing Session
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34th CoB Members' Meeting (Bari, AGRILEVANTE)
Interview to CoB President (italian language)
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Club of Bologna - Linkedin Group
The "Club of Bologna" Linkedin Group was designed!
Follow the group! You will to be always updated!
Marco Fiala - CoB Secretary General
Ag-Mechanization and the "Club of Bologna"... a long story
From Federunacoma "Three Decades of Ideas and Strategies for Agricultural Mechanisation", an amazing video to celebrate our 30th meetings!
Marco Fiala - Secretary General